Question

I have the need to show the DropDown (HTML select element) expanded initially when it is loaded so that all the options in the DropDown are shown. I searched quite a bit, but suprisingly, I did not find an answer to such a simple problem. I am using ASP.NET MVC with jquery.

Answer 1

You could write in your HTML code:

   <select size="3" name="test" id="test">
      <option value="1">one</option>
      <option value="2">two</option>
      <option value="3">three</option>
   </select>

and then via javascript set a timer that after while changes the select box size attribute to 1.
For instance at the end of your page (before the clsed body tag) place this code:

<script type="text/javascript">
   window.setTimeout(function() { document.getElementById('test').size = 1; }, 5000); //5000 = 5 seconds
</script>